How do I display non-English characters OK on our Web site?

HTML & CSS
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Erik,

I did that. But the result was the same.
And I just did it again. That is:

But the German chars are still displayed NONE!
Here:

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Now we better call @PaulOB.

If he is awake? :smile:

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I haven’t seen this answered in the thread, but what encoding is the editr you are using? Are you positive you are encoding correctly?

The htaccess has the UTF line, yes? Your meta charset on the page is ISO still - make that UTF-8. And also change your editor to UTF-8 and re-enter in the characters.

Save, upload, and let’s see if that helps. Your page still has BOM which means it’s not being encoded correctly.

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Thanks for stepping in Ryan, I’m way over bedtime. :sleeping:

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I have a little bit before I head to bed :slight_smile: . I’m no Paul but I might be able to help.

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Hi there WorldNews

In that case try my actual test file…

german-characters.zip (437 Bytes)

…then, if it still does not work for you, then the problem, as
Michael_Morris suggested in post #13, is with your server.

coothead

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Hello RyanReese,

I am using EditPlus editor.
And FYI I produce sites with this same Editor and they display German Chars OK, as sample provided above. But somehow this Web site of Wastopia.com does not!

And yes, I did put the UTF line in the .htaccess for this Web site.

And yes, I did add the Meta:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

How do I specifically change EditPlus editor to UTF-8? Although as noted it does produce files that display German Chars Ok for other Web sites, which sites are served from the same server too!

Man on Man :- what a freaking mistery and waste of time for something so lil :frowning:

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I dowloaded your page without browser interference just to make sure what encoding it has. The http://www.wastopia.com/index.php?lang=DE page is encoded with ISO-8859-15, the Euro added char-set.

That confirms what I noticed earlier. Again if I switch browser setting from the served UTF-8 to the content ISO-8859 it displays without errors.

So I guess the EditPlus didn’t save it correctly, and it should have a setting for utf-8 without the bom. Some editors saves automaticly in the coding it loaded in.

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Eric,

1st, I have the Meta Tag:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

in this Web page. So how come this is not over riding the mysterious saving of UTF by my Text Editor EditPlus?

2nd, what then do you suggest I do to have Edit Plus not mysteriously save this files in UTF?

Thanks

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It won’t override the charset from the EditPlus file.

I’d google “editplus set utf-8” or something like that. I got this as a result - http://www.satya-weblog.com/2010/07/editplus-text-editor-encoding-support.html

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Went to the URL refed in your reply and it states to go to EditPlus:

Menu: Document → File Encoding → Change File Encoding …

but my EditPlus does not have the option!

Oh well, I give up on this for now :slight_smile:

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Perhaps download Notepad++ and try that one :slight_smile: .

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Just when I said I give up, AFTER all this time wasted on such a seemingly TRIVIAL issue :frowning:

I found the Answer to it. Answer is that in the damn EditPlus I had to select the Save Option Encoding to be: UTF8

Never had to do that before! But somehow for this new Web site pages I do!

Anyway, now it displays OK, here:

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Let’s pop the champagne ;). Congrats.

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Been there, done that :wink:

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yes indeed :smile:
Specially being Friday and all. Cheers 2 U all :smile:

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